[Python-Dev] Dictionary tuning (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney@avaya.com
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:54:35 +1000

From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip@pobox.com] =20 Tim> at the moment ... I'm somewhat over-allocated :( =20 Skip> Can't you just head over to Dunkin' Donuts and resize? ;-) =20 Tim> Umm ... I'm parsing this OK ... seems syntactically=20 correct ... but Tim> the not sure about the semantics ... =20 Well, when a dictionary is over-allocated, we make it bigger=20 to create more space. I was thinking maybe you could try a similar sort of=20 approach using donuts...

Making me bigger won't help anything (I'm trying to make myself smaller).

Now, if Dunkin' Donuts can make more of me, that's another matter ...

Tim Delaney